Epistemic Status: Speculative. I am not a physicist. Rather, I am a programmer with a long standing interest in physics. I used an LLM to translate my text to standard physics terminology, but the ideas and concepts are entirely my own. I am looking for where this concept breaks down, to see whether the concept could be made more falsifiable.

The Core Intuition - Gravity as Network Latency

I am proposing a toy model where General Relativity could be modelled as a distributed computing network under load. The central hypothesis is that gravity is not a fundamental force, but an emergent property of computational resource limits.

I’ve been playing with a mental model of physics for the last 8 years. I originally suggested this in my philosophical novel UTOPAI (2017). The book explores AGI, the nature of human thought, and the simulation hypothesis. In the text, while analysing whether reality is a simulation, I proposed that the existence of gravity itself suggests a simulation, because gravity could be an emergent artifact of processing limits.

I want to see more deeply if such a system naturally maps to the geometric effects of gravity (Time Dilation + Spatial Curvature).

The Axioms:

The Universe is a Graph: Spacetime is a collection of interacting local nodes (a causal set or mesh).
Finite Throughput: Each node takes time for "state updates" (processing local physics) and "message passing" (transmitting constraints to neighbors). Similar to any computer network, both state updates and message passing is implemented as something which consumes computational cycles.
Mass = Load: The presence of mass/energy represents a complex state that requires higher computational resources to update. Normally, where there is no data, there is minimal computational cost. However, when there is data, the computational cost is proportional to the amount of data. Please note that this is not rest mass. I am looking at Energy Density ( $T_{00}$ )
Speed of Light = Speed of Information Transfer: The speed of light is the speed at which information can be transferred between nodes. This is not a physical constant, but rather a property of the network.

The Hypothesis: Gravity is not a fundamental force or a geometry. it is simply Latency caused by resource contention.

1. Mapping Time Dilation ( $g_{00}$ )

In GR, clocks run slower near massive bodies. In this model, a node with high "Mass Load" is computati...

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